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He saw rest that it was good: and the land that it was excellent: and he bowed his shoulder to carry, and became a servant under tribute.

Dan shall judge his people like another tribe in Israel.

Let Dan be a snake in the way, a serpent in the path, that biteth the horse’s heels, that his rider may fall backward.

Aser, his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield dainties to kings.

His bow rested upon the strong, and the bands of his arms and his hands were loosed, by the hands of the mighty one of Jacob: thence he came forth a pastor, the stone of Israel.

The blessings of thy father are strengthened with the blessings of his fathers: until the desire of the everlasting hills should come: may they be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the Nazarite among his brethren.

There they buried him, and Sara his wife: there was Isaac buried with Rebecca, his wife: there also Lia doth lie buried.

(49-32) And when he had ended the commandments, wherewith he instructed his sons, he drew up his feet upon the bed, and died: and he was gathered to his people.

And when Joseph saw this, he fell upon his father’s face, weeping and kissing him.

And he commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father.

And while they were fulfilling his commands, there passed forty days: for this was the manner with bodies that were embalmed, and Egypt mourned for him seventy days.

And the house of Joseph with his brethren, except their children, and their flocks and herds, which they left in the land of Gessen.

He had also in his train chariots and horsemen: and it was a great company.

And Joseph returned into Egypt with his brethren, and all that were in his company, after he had buried his father.

Now he being dead, his brethren were afraid, and talked one with another: Lest perhaps he should remember the wrong he suffered, and requite us all the evil that we did to him.

And his brethren came to him; and worshipping prostrate on the ground, they said: We are thy servants.

And he dwelt in Egypt with all his father’s house; and lived a hundred and ten years.

(50-23) After which he told his brethren: God will visit you after my death, and will make you go up out of this land, to the land which he swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

These are the names of the children of Israel, that went into Egypt with Jacob: they went in every man with his household:

After he was dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation,